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A new report says a lack of federal funding for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, rising infection rates, and inadequate resources and infrastructure have allowed the disease to take hold in the Deep South, especially in impoverished rural areas. The Southern AIDS Coalition report say the national HIV epidemic is now being driven by these rural areas in the South.

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A new report says a lack of federal funding for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, rising infection rates, and inadequate resources and infrastructure have allowed the disease to take hold in the Deep South, especially in impoverished rural areas. The Southern AIDS Coalition report say the national HIV epidemic is now being driven by these rural areas in the South.

Life expectancy is falling for some women in rural and low-income areas, especially in the deep South, Appalachia and the lower Midwest, researchers report. The study of almost 1,000 counties found about 12% of U.S. women have a shorter life expectancy now than in the early 1980s, mainly due to increases in death from diabetes, lung cancer, emphysema and kidney failure.